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Articles

Empowered to Confront What is Deadly: The Spirituality of Living Gratefully

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay defines spirituality as aliveness and explores living gratefully as a spiritual path.
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Articles

What Our Ancestors Knew: Living Gratefully Is at the Heart of Life

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay explains how gratitude is a common through line in spiritual traditions and how…
Videos

To Be in Awe

by Reflections of Life
In this short film, 96-year-old Dot Fisher-Smith offers wisdom for living a full life including…
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Articles

Gratefulness Is Our Common Ground

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
In this essay, Grateful Living CEO Joe Primo describes gratefulness as a shared language that…
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Articles

Between the Notes: The Gift of Silence and Stillness

by Sheryl Chard, Grateful Living
In this essay, Sheryl Chard reflects on the gifts of silence and stillness and how…
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Articles

Bound Together: Grateful Contentment

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay shares how living gratefully naturally leads you away from discontent and towards contentment,…
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Pathways

Revitalize Your Rituals, Revitalize Your Life: Open to Mystery

by The Grateful Living Team
Ritual holds unique power to open us to experiences of wonder, awe, and the sacred.…
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Pathways

Revitalize Your Rituals, Revitalize Your Life: Cross a Threshold

by The Grateful Living Team
Today's Key Teaching: Ritual functions as lamplight for the unmarked paths in our lives, illuminating…
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Pathways

Revitalize Your Rituals, Revitalize Your Life: Strengthen Connections

by The Grateful Living Team
Today's Key Teaching: Rituals hold enormous power to create social cohesion and engender a sense…
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Pathways

Revitalize Your Rituals, Revitalize Your Life: Ritualize the Everyday

by The Grateful Living Team
Today's Key Teaching: By building ritual into your everyday life, you tap into the meaning…
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Practices

Practice Compassion: Understanding in Action

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This practice encourages you to move from empathy to compassion, from feeling with others to…
Articles

Grateful Compassion: The Courage to Imagine and Take Action

by Joe Primo, Grateful Living
This essay demonstrates how practicing gratefulness leads to compassion and taking action.
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